Colorado's Terrorized by Winter are brand new as of 2025, stepping into the raw black metal tradition with the mountain state's characteristic extremity — cold, unforgiving, and built from pure adversarial instinct. Raw black metal at its most elemental, the kind of music that sounds like it was recorded in a blizzard and wants you to feel every degree of it.

Thirsting Ampoule emerged in 2025 as a raw black/death metal project, trading in corrosive production and savage extremity that keeps both genres at their most uncompromising.

Derby, Kansas one-piece Throsk works deep in raw black metal and ambient territory since 2016, stripping the sound back to primitive aggression and abrasive texture with no concern for production sheen. The project fuses the nihilistic spirit of raw black metal with stretches of cold, isolationist ambient — a fitting approach for the flat, windswept Kansas plains.

Wilmington, California's Thulcandra take raw black metal to its most unvarnished extreme, honing a deliberately lo-fi, confrontational approach since 2010 that strips the genre down to its most hostile and primitive elements.

A Pennsylvania raw black metal project formed in 2018, Thuringwethil takes its name from the vampire bat-demon of Tolkien's mythology and pursues the cold, lo-fi austerity that defines the raw black metal underground. Deliberate in its hostility to polished production, the project channels a misanthropic intensity through minimal, corrosive sound design.

A Citrus Heights, California raw black metal project that surfaced in 2025, Thy Lamentum embraces the stripped-down, buzzing ferocity of the raw black metal underground, building music that prioritizes atmosphere and misery over technical display. Brand new to the scene, they arrive from a Sacramento suburb with the urgency and bleak focus the subgenre demands.

New Jersey's Toilet Fucker, formed in 2025, operate deep in the lo-fi raw black metal underground, recording under the trvekvlt banner with the kind of abrasive, deliberately anti-polished sound that treats fidelity as the enemy.

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Westchester, New York's Torch and Sword emerged in 2020 as a raw black metal project that strips the genre back to its most primitive and confrontational form — crude production, relentless aggression, and an ethos that rejects the polished aesthetics of modern extreme metal. New York's dense underground has always had room for this kind of uncompromising work.

An Austin, Texas raw black metal act formed in 2022, Torture embraces lo-fi production and primitive aggression — deliberately corrosive and antagonistic in the tradition of underground USBM's most unpolished factions.

Trollkicker is a raw black metal project from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, formed in 2013, operating in the lo-fi, abrasive end of the genre with an emphasis on primitive intensity over production polish.

Twilight Falls is a raw black metal and ambient project active since 2005, rooted in the Pacific Northwest and dedicated to lo-fi, primitive black metal recordings layered with cold atmospheric textures.

Tyrannus is an Albany, New York raw black metal and dungeon synth project formed in 2019, inhabiting the lo-fi, primitive end of the black metal spectrum while incorporating the atmospheric, keyboard-driven textures of dungeon synth.

Tyrant Veil is a raw black metal project from Minneapolis, Minnesota, active since 2013, pursuing a deliberately lo-fi and abrasive approach to the genre stripped of any atmospheric polish.